Learning About China

Here's some pictures of Govinda Haridas with the fan he made. We spent the last week learning about China. Read more about it here:

Soul Adventure School: China

Soul Adventure School Blog

I've made a separate blog for our homeschool. Family stuff will always be here at this blog, but all school related stuff will be there to serve as a record of what we are learning. I will update it every week with what we have done.

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Leafy...the BUTTERFLY!

Six days after going inside the chrysalis, our little Leafy the caterpillar came out as a beautiful butterfly. It was quite exciting. We let his wings dry in the sun, and as I was taking pictures, he flapped his wings a few times and then took of flying. We're so thankful that we were blessed with the experience!

Leafy the Caterpillar

It is illegal to mail those fun butterfly kits to Hawaii, so I thought that we wouldn't be able to watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. But then Dad found a beautiful caterpillar, just a few weeks after we studied butterflies. Haridas named him Leafy, since we saw him eat through leaves so fast. After 2 days, Leafy climbed on the stick, hung upside down for a while, and then began to make a chrysalis. We didn't know until now that the caterpillar's head actually falls off! We look forward to seeing what kind of butterfly Leafy will become. I could not find any information to identify what kind Leafy is, so it will be a fun surprise!

Homemade Crystals

When we were learning about rocks and jewels, we started making sugar crystals (rock candy) by letting some cooked sugar water sit in a jar with a string hanging in it. After 3 weeks, we had some beautiful crystals! We fed it to the ants outside afterwards. The camera doesn't quite capture all the beauty of our homemade crystal.

B Is For Butterfly

Here's Haridas as a beautiful, big, blue butterfly!

J is for Jewels

After learning about rocks and the letter R, we moved onto jewels and the letter J. We made our own jewels with dots of glue dried on tin foil, which we colored and peeled off, then glued onto a crown of tin foil. Here's some pics of the beautiful crown! You can't really tell in the pictures, but the jewels are clear and colored like crystals and gems.

Volcano Fun

We had fun while learning about the letter R and rocks for lesson 20 in My Father's World Kindergarten. Since most of the rocks around here are igneous (volcanic) rocks, and we live near an active volcano, Haridas is naturally fascinated with volcanoes. So, we made a model volcano out of clay, painted it, and made it erupt with baking soda and vinegar mixed with red paint. Haridas is with his good friend Karika watching it erupt.

P Is For Penguin

We spent 2 weeks learning about the letter P and penguins. We were surprised to learn that male Emperor penguins can be 4 feet tall and weigh 100 lbs! So, we drew a life size one and measured how tall the boys would be in comparison. Their heights are the red lines. Haridas helped color and draw our penguin friend.



We also made penguins out of play-doh. We learned a lot from these austere animals that are so tolerant and go through so much for their loved ones.

Haridas Loves Reading!

Something recently shifted in Haridas and now he's really into reading and wants to learn more all the time! It's so exciting for all of us! Here's a video of him reading 15 words, many ending with ck, all by himself. We're on Lesson 17 with My Father's World From A to Z, and we have 90 days left!

E Is For Elephant

Haridas made this elephant mask as we are studying the letter E. He made it all by himself by drawing and cutting out the ears and trunk and gluing them onto a paper plate. Then he covered it with black and white finger paint to make a grey color. I cut out the eyes and tied on the rubber band and that was all I did. He then put on his grey elephant shirt and was all set to go as an elephant!

H is for Haridas and Horses

We've been studying the letter H and horses, and our 6th week on farm animals. Haridas got really good at drawing horses! We also made horses out of modeling beeswax. Here's a picture and video:

Making Homemade Butter

We've been studying the letter 'C', and the theme is cows, (and how God's words help our souls grow like how milk helps our bodies grow). So we made our own butter by shaking a jar of whipping cream for about 20 minutes. It was pretty amazing how the chemical change just happened. It was like whipped cream, and then became like butter. We had a lot of fun with this lesson! Here's pics:

Love Bugs

Here's some more recent pics I took. Navin is modeling some shorts and hat that I made, which will be on the flyer at the store and on the website. Haridas is smiling with the play-doh ladybug we made in school.

Little Bugs

We've been learning about insects for the past 2 weeks. Here's the boys trying out their new antennae! Navin is a red ant!

100 Days Of School!

We've made it to the 100th day of school! We just finished learning about ocean animals, and we have mastered the letters S, L, M, A, N, D, and O, the numbers 1-9, and three letter words like man, mat, sat, sun, mom, dad, nut, mud, dot, Dan, Don, and more. We're celebrating with 100 licks of ice cream! Here's some recent pictures of Haridas's hard school work:

70 Days Of School!

Here's a video of the boys. Please forgive Haridas's shy moment when he realized I was videotaping him.



We're having so much fun everyday with pre-school. This week we are studying the letter T and turtles and perseverance and patience. Haridas painted this turtle made out of a paper plate. Thank you, Grammy Sharon and Grampy Dan for the paints and paper and plates.

We love you all and hope all is well. I've been so busy these days with raising these boys, it's hard to keep up with the blog. I will do my best as I know you all love to check on these little guys! Take care and God Bless!

Homeschool

We're in our 6th week of homeschool now and loving it! Here's Haridas with our 100s chart. Everyday we put a straw in the cup and write the number. When we have 10 straws, we put a rubber band around them and put them in the 10s cup. Below is a calendar we draw a shape on each day to make a pattern. I will update more as I can since have been recording everything. So far we have spent two weeks on S-sun, M-moon, and L-leaf. This picture shows the tree and sun he made with the tangrams.